Re: copy to suer space

From: Juan Quintela (quintela@mandrakesoft.com)
Date: Fri Nov 23 2001 - 08:14:50 EST


>>>>> "luís" == Luís Henriques <umiguel@alunos.deis.isec.pt> writes:

>> This to me looks like the main desire is to fool the user. It looks like
>> it doing something, but it really isn't...

luís> Not really... This may look like an old DOS virus :) but it is not! It's a
luís> fault injection tool - it's purpose (in this case, of corse) is to cause a
luís> very short delay on a critic process.

What is wrong putting a signal handler in your process for a signal,
and busy wait in that signal all the time that you want?

Later, Juan.

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In theory, practice and theory are the same, but in practice they 
are different -- Larry McVoy
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